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| Our 2011/12 Season has just been announced! Join us and guarantee yourself a ticket to our most exciting programming yet. Subscriptions start from $190. This will be a season of extraordinary tales, glorious music, creative invention, and community through shared experiences - a true A.R.T. season. | Were you there? Check out these video highlights from the last two seasons!
A.R.T. shows from 2010 were honored this week with 8 IRNE Awards. 
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| Starts August 17, 2011 | | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess By George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin Adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre Murray Directed by Diane Paulus Choreography Ronald K. Brown In 1935, Porgy and Bess premiered at the Colonial Theater in Boston. Now, 76 years later, the A.R.T. brings back Porgy and Bess in a new production featuring internationally renowned stars Audra McDonald as Bess, Norm Lewis as Porgy, and David Alan Grier as Sporting Life. A.R.T. Artistic Director and Tony Award nominee Diane Paulus directs this revival adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, The America Play, Venus) and OBIE-winning composer Diedre Murray (Running Man, Best of Both Worlds). |
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| Three Pianos By Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy
With music from Franz Schubert's Winterreise, Op. 89, D911 (1828)
Directed by Rachel Chavkin The OBIE-winning hit music-theater event - that wowed audiences and critics alike in its sold-out runs at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and New York Theatre Workshop - is a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise. Filled with fantastical touches and inventive arrangements, Three Pianos is a colorful and imaginative evening exploring Schubert's music, life, and times. Set on a blustery winter night, three friends, each manning a piano, lead the audience through fragments of Schubert's famous work while grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music and drinking too much. |
| Starts December 7, 2011 |
| Starts January 18, 2012 | | As You Like It By William Shakespeare
Featuring members of The A.R.T. /MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training Class of 2012 "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" in Shakespeare's beloved pastoral comedy As You Like It. This classic tale follows Rosalind and her friend Celia's escape from a deadly conspiracy into nature's wild, liberating arms. What follows is an unconventional romance, with everything from wrestling matches to cross-dressing shepherds, culminating in a finale so joyful that spring will seem just around the corner. Building on the success of the 2010/11 Season's sold-out Alice vs. Wonderland on the Loeb Mainstage, As You Like It will feature members of the graduating Institute Class of 2012. |
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| Wild Swans - World Premiere By Jung Chang
Adapted by Alexandra Wood A world premiere adaptation of Jung Chang's international bestseller, Wild Swans chronicles a family's survival through a century of upheaval. Banned in China, this moving story follows three generations through Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. As change sweeps over their country, the family endures their hardships through sacrifice, courage, and love.
Wild Swans is an American Repertory Theater and Young Vic co-production. |
| Starts February 11, 2012 |
| Starts March 16, 2012 | | FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps - World Premiere Music and lyrics by César Alvarez with The Lisps
Book by Molly Rice and César Alvarez
Directed by Sarah Benson As the Civil War rages around him, the Union soldier Julian Munro dreams of bringing peace to the world and an end to human suffering. In a series of letters with Lord Byron's brilliant daughter Ada Lovelace, Julian attempts to invent an omnipotent steam-powered brain designed to save humanity before it destroys itself. Featuring the indie-rock band The Lisps, this quirky new musical melds science fiction, historical narrative, and the sounds of American folk music to explore Julian and Ada's epic fantasy of a utopian future. "Like an old time variety show, The Lisps' songs tap dance between simple country guitar melodies to a cacophony of melodica, horns, even bag pipes. Tunis and Alvarez trade lyrics so sweet and silly they sound like the Moldy Peaches' campy, country cousin." Spin Magazine |
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| Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie Words and music by Woody Guthrie
Devised by David M. Lutken with Nick Corley
One of the most influential song writers and balladeers of the twentieth century, Woody Guthrie is a musical hero of legendary proportions who transformed folk music into a vehicle for social protest and captured the adversity and hardship of a generation during the Great Depression. His music and activism paved the way for many great American music makers including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, and many more.
Woody Sez brings the giant to life in a joyous, toe-tapping, and moving theatrical portrait that uses Woody's words and songs to transport the audience through his fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes tragic life. With more than twenty-five classic Woody tunes including "This Land is Your Land" and "Bound for Glory," Woody Sez captures the heart and spirit of Woody Guthrie and the stories of America in this production that coincides with his centennial year.
"A high spirited celebration...stirringly captures the rebellious spirit of Guthrie's times, and of our own." The Guardian
"Infused with passion....wit and music to appeal to young and old alike." Whatsonstage
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| Starts May 5, 2012 |
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